Could you help me with the service manual or the schematic for this cambridge audio dac 3 ?

The CD input seems dead and the DAT input seems OK.

I found a copy of the output stage for the Dacmagic II/3 but unfortunaly this is sheet 3/5.

I suppose the missing sheet are describing the input stage ?

Sorry for my frenchy english

Thanks a lot

paul_peraic

10th September 2009 04:23 PM

Stan Curtis

Search for Stan Curtis on the net he will have them if it is the old DAC3
and E-mail him

havar

15th November 2009 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mgm31
(http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/102399-cambridge-audio-dac-3-schematic-needed-post1216988.html#post1216988)

Hi,

Could you help me with the service manual or the schematic for this cambridge audio dac 3 ?

The CD input seems dead and the DAT input seems OK.

I found a copy of the output stage for the Dacmagic II/3 but unfortunaly this is sheet 3/5.

I suppose the missing sheet are describing the input stage ?

Sorry for my frenchy english

Thanks a lot

Hi!

Did you ever find any solution to this? I'm asking, as I've got an old Dacmagic 3 myself, also with a dead CD input.

Thank you for reading.

mgm31

15th November 2009 11:57 AM

It's a long time ago and I sold this dac with the input dead.

I can't remember exactly but seems to be the input buffer and someone solved it with a replacement.

Didn't found the link on my favorite.

JohnW

15th November 2009 12:47 PM

Hi,

The Dac is one of my designs, you need to replace the 8-Pin DIP 9637 - its located close to the input SPDIF's BNC's.

These are damaged when exposed to High Earth Leakage currents on the SPDIF inputs - never a problem when using BNC to BNC - but if you use BNC to RCA, then the center conductor of the RCA plug makes contact first - before the Ground - resulting in any Earth leakage current to flow via the center RCA pin to the input circuit.... With BNC connectors, you don't have this problem as Ground is always made first during connection, and broken last during disconnection.

John

havar

15th November 2009 01:11 PM

Thank you guys!

Now I know what to do, if I bother... I guess that I will fix it though, as I just can't handle the fact that something isn't working properly...:rolleyes:

It is probably as "JohnW" says, as I was using a RCA-cable, and the BNC/RCA adapter was already inserted in the input.

Thanx a lot! :)

tiefbassuebertr

15th September 2010 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnW
(http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1981399#post1981399)

Hi,

The Dac is one of my designs, you need to replace the 8-Pin DIP 9637 - its located close to the input SPDIF's BNC's.

These are damaged when exposed to High Earth Leakage currents on the SPDIF inputs - never a problem when using BNC to BNC - but if you use BNC to RCA, then the center conductor of the RCA plug makes contact first - before the Ground - resulting in any Earth leakage current to flow via the center RCA pin to the input circuit.... With BNC connectors, you don't have this problem as Ground is always made first during connection, and broken last during disconnection.

I've read it and that's my problem!! My DacMagic 3 has dead BNC connections and only Optical working... After switching my DVD Player to a brand new Blu-Ray player and using frequencies higher than 48Khz (me, as an idiot, do select 96 Khz and even 192 khz)

Because I have not thrown away all faulty devices, can I note, that the damaged devices are the TI version (UA9637A). The also often used version from National Semiconductor, the DS9637A is obviously better immune against high input voltage peaks (perhaps internal suppressor diodes present?). Thus I use only this version for replace.

I'm going to fix this unit with the help of a friend who's much better than me using the soldering iron :D and he will be back in town next week.

Once he's able to work with my Cambridge Audio, we will search for a replacement such as DS9637A (National Semiconductor) and keep my DAC covered for future damages.

Probably also I will spend little money in some upgrade of the machine. There's a well-know article from Hi-FI News date January 1999 that proposes a lot of changes. I'll take this like a guide for upgrading.